Who Says We're Right Part II

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Leiby Burnham’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay good afternoon ladies and gentlemen good afternoon it is a great pleasure to see you all here we've got a packed house today it's wonderful to see all your faces we are now in our second part of this series known as the seven wonders of Jewish history alternatively known as how do we know we're right we started off last week talking about how the Christian guy sits next to you on the phone on the plane and he wants to know how do you think you're right there's so many more Christians than there are Jews or in general how do we know right maybe the atheists are right maybe they maybe the Hindus are right maybe the Buddhists are right and what we said is that if we look at the Torah every religion in the book literally every religion thousands of religions all in their holy writings they tell you about is what will happen in Kingdom Come if you behave that you're a good Christian or you're good Muslim you're a good hit and do all kinds of amazing things will happen to you in the world to come our book does not talk about the world to come at all in the 24 books of the Tanakh it does not talk about the world to come at all why because it's not provable it's not knowable but what it does say is

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